OVERVIEW

The 21st century brought about a splintering of global society like none other. Nations collapsed, entire coastlines vanished underwater, wars claimed millions of lives and displaced countless others, and yet during that time the world's population grew by a factor of five. The inevitable result was the creation of a global caste of disenfranchised peoples; citizens of no nation and employees of no corporation. This group, by far the world's largest, is known as the Nonames.

With the upper class protected by corporations, and the middle-class retreating into walled-enclaves, the unskilled and the refugees were left outside to fend for themselves. Surviving on the margins, and with no formal allegiance, the Nonames are organized into competing clans.

The Nonames have no government or territory to call their own, yet there are groups among them that have organized in an attempt to carve out some part of the world for themselves. Some of these groups, such as the Arell Cartel and the Quo Sung Syndicate, are dedicated to profit and exploitation. Many groups find causes; the Red Claw Movement and the Mother Earthers hold extreme environmental philosophies, while the Levellers fight against technology which they believe has brought the earth to ruin. One of the more powerful groups is the Black Army, whose goal is simply to survive in a dangerous world.

While they don't have any fondness for the other four domains, the Nonames reserve most of their anger for the United Nations. As refugees, millions of Nonames have been sent to UN "relocation centers" or forced to become Venusian colonists. Many don't survive such treatment, but those who do never forget and never forgive.

HISTORY

The Nonames do not have a collective history as they are too fragmented to share experiences.